Donald Griffith

Biography

Don Griffith is Head of Financial Crimes & Fraud Prevention Compliance, as well as Compliance Counsel, at MassMutual, where he leads several teams handling anti-money laundering, anti-corruption, privacy and information security compliance, and fraud prevention compliance. He has three decades of regulatory enforcement and compliance experience. He started his legal career at Rogers & Wells in New York City and Washington, DC, where he focused on securities and banking litigation, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act compliance and securities enforcement matters. He then joined the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement as Senior Counsel, and later Branch Chief, investigating violations of federal securities laws. He spent several years in Los Angeles at LRN, consulting with Fortune 1000 companies on their compliance and ethics issues and designing training to address those issues. He returned to private practice at Foley & Lardner in Washington, DC, as Senior Counsel, where he was a member of the firm’s Securities Enforcement and White Collar practice group. Prior to joining MassMutual, he was Associate General Counsel at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he handled regulatory enforcement matters for the firm. Don speaks frequently on corporate compliance and governance issues, including how to develop and assess effective compliance programs.